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<p>[QUOTE="PlanoSteve, post: 3061372, member: 91609"]OK, point taken, & I don't mean to say that some might find it useful. However, for the most part, in dealing with the <u>highly, highly</u> subjective area of grading, whether by TPG's or individuals in the raw (the coins, not the individuals), adding another level which is not yet universally accepted (not every TPG uses the "*") just seems to make things even more confusing for those who can't or won't grade for themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's like an "MS 65+" or "MS 65.5" is not sufficient. And the addition of a CAC bean is not sufficient. The Department of Redundancy Department wants to create a system where they can take, say an entire mintage of 5,000,000 coins and grade them in 5,000,000 sequential grades from "best" to "worst". We don't need that kind of finite, minutia. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the days before computers, you had to virtually see a coin in hand to evaluate it for your own. And auction catalogs were still just pictures. Now, too many people (or collectors) are trying to make definitive "on-screen" determinations of minute differences in coins. (And notice how none of this really pertains to the ancients!) </p><p><br /></p><p>The irony (for me) is that somewhere in my collection I have slabs with stars but I didn't acquire them because they had a funny symbol after the grade. I got them because <b><i><u>I</u></i></b> liked them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PlanoSteve, post: 3061372, member: 91609"]OK, point taken, & I don't mean to say that some might find it useful. However, for the most part, in dealing with the [U]highly, highly[/U] subjective area of grading, whether by TPG's or individuals in the raw (the coins, not the individuals), adding another level which is not yet universally accepted (not every TPG uses the "*") just seems to make things even more confusing for those who can't or won't grade for themselves. It's like an "MS 65+" or "MS 65.5" is not sufficient. And the addition of a CAC bean is not sufficient. The Department of Redundancy Department wants to create a system where they can take, say an entire mintage of 5,000,000 coins and grade them in 5,000,000 sequential grades from "best" to "worst". We don't need that kind of finite, minutia. In the days before computers, you had to virtually see a coin in hand to evaluate it for your own. And auction catalogs were still just pictures. Now, too many people (or collectors) are trying to make definitive "on-screen" determinations of minute differences in coins. (And notice how none of this really pertains to the ancients!) The irony (for me) is that somewhere in my collection I have slabs with stars but I didn't acquire them because they had a funny symbol after the grade. I got them because [B][I][U]I[/U][/I][/B] liked them.[/QUOTE]
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